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Kansas Democrats
The Kansas Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party in the state of Kansas and one of two major parties in the state, alongside the Kansas Republican Party, Republicans. The chair of the party is Jeanna Repass. The party currently controls the state's Governor of Kansas, governorship and Lieutenant Governor of Kansas, lieutenant governorship, as well as one seat in the state's List of United States Representatives from Kansas, U.S. House delegation. It is currently in the minority in both houses of the Kansas Legislature, state legislature. Overview Since its founding as a territory, Kansas politics have been largely dominated by the Kansas Republican Party and in 1857, the Kansas Democratic Party was formed in an attempt to curb this trend by writing a constitution which would make Kansas a pro-slavery state. This constitution, which was written in Lecompton, Kansas, was boycotted by many of the free-staters and seen as illegitima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Kansas ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named after the Kansas River, in turn named after the Kaw people, Kansa people. Its List of capitals in the United States, capital is Topeka, Kansas, Topeka, and its List of cities in Kansas, most populous city is Wichita, Kansas, Wichita; however, the largest urban area is the bi-state Kansas City metropolitan area split between Kansas and Missouri. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Plains Indians, Indigenous tribes. The first settlement of non-indigenous people in Kansas occurred in 1827 at Fort Leavenworth. The pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the Slavery in the United States, slavery debate. When it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S. governm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Kansas Elections
A general election was held in the U.S. state, state of Kansas on November 6, 2018. Primary elections were held on August 7, 2018. Voters elected all six executive officers, the lower house of the Kansas Legislature, state legislature, and all of the state's delegations to the United States House of Representatives, U.S. House. U.S. House of Representatives Kansas elected four U.S. representatives, one for each Kansas's congressional districts, congressional districts. In 2018, the delegation's Republican majority changed from 4–0 to 3–1, the first time Democrats had held a seat in the state since 2010 United States House of Representatives elections in Kansas, 2010. Governor and lieutenant governor Incumbent Republicans Jeff Colyer and Tracey Mann lost their party's renomination in a tight primary election won by Secretary of State of Kansas, Secretary of State Kris Kobach and businessman Wink Hartman by a margin of around 0.1 percent. Democrats nominated state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas Gubernatorial Election, 2018
The 2018 Kansas gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the next governor of Kansas. On July 26, 2017, Governor Sam Brownback was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on January 24, 2018; he resigned the governorship on January 31 and was succeeded by Lieutenant Governor Jeff Colyer. Colyer was eligible to seek a full term and announced his candidacy prior to becoming Governor of Kansas. In the August 7 primary, Colyer ran against CPA and incumbent Insurance Commissioner Ken Selzer, Topeka doctor and 2006 Republican Kansas gubernatorial nominee Jim Barnett, and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach. On August 7, 2018, Kobach defeated Colyer in the Republican gubernatorial primary by an initial margin of 191 votes, a lead that increased to 361 votes by August 14, although discrepancies in some counties needed resolution ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas Gubernatorial Election, 2014
The 2014 Kansas gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 2014, to elect the governor of Kansas, concurrently with the election of Kansas' Class II U.S. Senate seat, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Republican governor Sam Brownback ran for re-election to a second term. He was opposed in the general election by Democrat Paul Davis, the Minority Leader of the Kansas House of Representatives, and Libertarian attorney Keen Umbehr. The election was viewed as a referendum on Brownback's aggressive tax cutting initiatives and his conservative values. The consensus among ''The Cook Political Report'', '' Governing'', ''The Rothenberg Political Report'', ''Sabato's Crystal Ball'', ''Daily Kos Elections'', and others was that the contest was a tossup. Brownback won the election by a margin of 3.69%. Davis carried seven counties, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
